Some Odd and Unusual Case

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   This report came to my attention in 1980 after BUFORA forwarded it –and only then because they hoped it might feature in a  publication they were hoping might get them more members by reading the “juicy cases”.

   During the winter of 1958/1959, Mr L was driving along the A38 toward Bristol and there was very little traffic around though the time was approaching Midnight. With no warning the car stopped as all the electrics failed; being of a mechanical bent what happened did not make sense to him.  The one thing Mr L cannot say is for how long he just sat in his car before he got out and opened up the bonnet.  He looked at the engine and then “as far as I can remember” went to the boot of the car to get his tools. As he returned to the front of the vehicle he was taken aback as the engine re-started by itself and the lights came on.

   His first thought was that someone must have gotten into the car and started it up but, looking, he found the car empty.  It made no sense and unnerved him so he got back into the car and drove off at speed “to get away from the spot”.  Even in 1980, he was nervous about going past this spot.

   Mr L reported that he had the definite feeling that the energy from the car as well as himself had somehow been drained.   He felt that this might account for his not moving when the electrics initially died.  When the car re-started he said that there was a definite feeling within himself of a flow of energy (see the Mr A report) which he likened to the feeling of the sun on your back when sun-bathing.  This sensation made him “feel ten feet tall, terrific”.  It was as though a barrier had been placed over driver and vehicle and the removed.

   The fact that he had no idea how long the incident had lasted is worth noting, though he did know that some time was missing.  He described the feeling, which seems to have unnerved him even decades later, that he had “visited another planet” or something associated with another planet though he cannot recall any object being present.

   Mr L had decided to face his fears and contacted BUFORA before he was due to move abroad.  BUFORA stressed the importance of getting in touch with the witness “urgently”.  How “urgent” seemed to be down to the fact that this case might provide fodder for a new publication and BUFORA stated openly that it hoped the publicity would bring in new members.  My phone call to the National Investigations Coordinator was rather brusque: get off my backside and look into this urgently was insulting since BUFORA had sat on this “urgent” matter for over four months before sending it to me.

   By this time I believe that Mr L had second thoughts about opening up the memory. The flash of courage was gone.  He moved and I eventually traced him to Zimbabwe but it was all in vain.  When a percipients decides to build up courage and contact the ‘experts’ they need to act quickly before any change of mind.

   It was the late Lord Clancarty who brought this series of events to my attention and suggested that, as I was also Bristol based, it might be worth looking into. I do recall talking to both Mr and Mrs G and from what I recall –I spoke to them over 40 years ago- they seemed quite normal and down-to-earth. In Mrs G’s case all the events took place in the family home in St. George and in 1965.

   Mrs G was always alone in the house and only one experience took place on a Thursday, the rest all occurred on Mondays. She was always usually busy in the kitchen with the door between it and the lounge always open. On one occasion she suddenly found her consciousness filled with a very strong compulsion to look into the lounge. Mrs G would then turn to find a tall man, around 6 feet 3 inches (1.9 m), with fair-skin and rosy-cheeks. Rather “good looking” is how she described her uninvited visitor.  He a grey, metallic-looking two-piece suit; the coat being hip length and having a round neck collar. There was a 4 inches (10 cms) wide belt but of darker material around the waist; the trousers were not tight-fitting and were tucked into the tops of rather large, dark boots. This visitor wore a rather large, bulbous silvery helmet.

   If that was not odd enough, what happened might be considered so; Mrs G would stare at the man for 1-3 seconds, turn away but, looking back –he was gone. On other occasions Mrs G would enter the lounge and find the figure looking at her.  I began to suspect that I was going to hear a lot of “Contactee twaddle” but I asked about communications from this visitor: none.  Not a single word was spoken and there was no claim of telepathic contact; Mrs G never saw the figure appear or disappear so what was going on?

   I had to leave open the possibility that more was going on than Mrs G remembered but she seemed perfectly able to account for all of her time; no “suddenly I realised an hour had gone by”.  There was a sequence of six appearances and that was it. To Mrs G it made no sense and all I can think of as a possible explanation looking back at the case now is whether she might have been prone to parahypnagogia?  Gurstelle and Oliveira distinguish a state which they call daytime parahypnagogia (DPH), the spontaneous intrusion of a flash image or dreamlike thought or insight into one's waking consciousness. DPH is typically encountered when one is "tired, bored, suffering from attention fatigue, and/or engaged in a passive activity." The exact nature of the waking dream may be forgotten even though the individual remembers having had such an experience.

   To me this seemed to answer everything.  Unfortunately, the proverbial fly-in-the-ointment here was Mr G and his experience. It was this unpublished account that Lord Clancarty thought I might find interesting and it was.

Some time between 1967/1968, Mr G was driving his lorry at night and was on Telegraph Hill, south-west of Exeter and north of Chudleigh in the Haldon Hills. The drive had been normal but then his vehicle headlights (four of them) picked out five figures standing by a hedgerow –on the other side of this hedgerow was a steep incline.

   Only one of the figures was partly turned towards him, the others simply looked up in an uninterested manner.  Mr G described them as 3 feet (90 cms) tall, “chocolate coloured” and with no head hair (“bald”).  The entities appeared to have no joints but “bendy limbs”; he saw them for 10-15 seconds as he drove by “flabbergasted”

   That was it and Mr G had only told his wife, Lord Clancarty (in a letter) and then me.  There was definitely no object sighted though the steep incline beyond the hedgerow “could” have hidden one but that would be pure speculation. These were not (moving) scarecrows and were living things with only one showing any real interest in the approach of his vehicle.  Mr G was most assuredly not asleep but quite awake and feeling fine.

   This is the type of report that can really drive someone made if they need to classify an incident; “We have no idea what they were doing but they were near a UFO” helps them in these situations but there was no UFO.  I really do not doubt Mr G as he seemed genuine but what do we make of this?  I hate to say it but “it was something that happened” and that is it.  I would love an answer but I doubt I will ever get one. Mrs G might have suffered from DPH but not Mr G –that is stretching explaining things away just too far.

   If ufologists I was associated with were unwilling to talk to Mr and Mrs G, whom they called “UFO-nuts” I found that with the next case it was more a case of “Let’s not get too involved”.  

   When I read of the 1973 A428 incident I had suspicions that there was far more to the case and wrote to FSR who assured me that if the case was “of importance” then they were sure that they would hear about it all.  This was never explained to me and since the percipients’ names and address were supplied to FSR but anonymity requested –and it had taken a year for the details to get to them- I doubted anything more would be heard.  It was up to FSR to approach those involved or at least let me contact them; that was just not going to be done or allowed.

   At 02:00 hours on a Sunday morning in September, 1973, Mr A was driving home from a dance and noted that the time on the church clock in the village of Little Houghton as he passed through.  He then slowed down for what he thought were the headlights of an approaching car but found himself suddenly blinded by a single, very bright white light right in front of his windscreen.

   Mr A then found himself walking along Bromham Bridge, 2 miles (3.2 kms) outside of Bedford, Bedfordshire.  His shoes and coat were wet as though he had walked through long grass; he felt refreshed and wide awake. The time was now 07:00 hours –he was missing five hours.

   Mr A made his way to a friend’s house and persuaded him to drive back along the road as he had no idea where his car was and it was eventually found near a main road turn-off.  To be precise Mr A’s car was found in a ploughed field with no tracks leading up to it visible; the field gate was also bolted.  The car itself was locked and unmarked but required a farmer using his tractor to get it out of the field.

   Mr A did express the fact that he had fears regarding what happened to him; these were building up inside of him and one day he got drunk and violent and told his sister about the incident.  His behaviour was unusual but typical of what you find in percipients in these cases; he dismissed the whole incident as a “road accident” and was accepting no other explanations.  

   Here is the big problem; Mr A was very concerned that “it” might happen again and he explained this in his letter to FSR.  This letter was a blatant plea for help or looking to the ‘experts’ for some kind of advice and Mr A obviously must have known there was far more to his impossible “car accident”. If the case was “of importance” said FSR; 5 hours go missing after a mysterious white light appears in front of his car and he ends up miles away with no memory of what happened and his car in the middle of ploughed field with no tyre tracks and a bolted field gate.

   Mr A was obviously suffering from traumatic stress and though he did not need people jumping in suggesting hypnosis he could have certainly done with talking to experienced investigators.  Investigators should not just be there to get the report then dump the witness; the job entails far more than that and FSR proved itself nothing more than a fancy hobby journal repeatedly. 

   This is another potentially important case lost to us but I hope that Mr A found some peace of mind because it is the best we can hope for.  In some cases, however, people seek help from ufologists but the trauma is such that they back away and more than a few move home and try to put what happened to them out of their mind –as with the Werrington case.

   At around 21:30 hours one night in January, 1974, Mr AB and Miss J were driving along the A52 when they spotted a large but faint green light pass over the road from right to left. This light moved as though pacing the car but staying ahead of it and it continued to do so until the junction with the A520 where the object veered off to the left and the couple followed.  It was still in sight as they approached Leek some three minutes later; the couple decided that it was pointless following this object if it was not going to land and so turned back.

   Not far from Cheddleton village, Miss J turned to look into the rear of the car –nothing was there though both felt the over-powering sensation that they were being watched.  Mr AB was very shaken and stopped the car; the feeling continued and grew stronger until the hairs on their necks stood up.  At this point the duo left the car and, in the dark, spoke in whispers as they tried to work out what had caused the feeling; Mr AB went so far as to check out the empty car boot.  It was empty.

   Mr AB looked up and saw a black rectangular ‘hole’ (an object) directly above them; a green light shone down onto the road in front of the car while a blue light did likewise to the rear of the vehicle. Both lights then began to focus in on the car –the couple leapt in and drove off.

   At the A520 junction the object was once more slightly in front of the car; by this time Mr AB and Miss J were both very scared but even so Mr AB felt compelled to follow the object.  As they turned at the junction the car went over a bumpy, noisy patch –this was a cattle grid at Ilam near Dovedale, Derbyshire: this was some 15 miles (23 kms) away from where they were.  In fact, it took Mr AB ten minutes to try to find out exactly where they were.  The most unnerving discovery was finding that it was now 01:30 hours –some three-and-a-half hours had been lost.

   Mr AB turned the car around and as the main A523 was reached both jumped: it should have been total darkness but they were now surrounded by houses and street lights.  Confused, the couple eventually found someone who told them that they were in Macclesfield.  This was some 20 miles (30 kms) from where they had turned back on to the A523.  It was also now 03:30 hours. 

   The couple headed to the local police station but did not mention the object.  The police got a squad car in Stoke to let Miss J’s parents know that she would be home in an hour or so. The police later confirmed that the couple had shown signs of being tense.  Petrol consumption was consistent with the normal journey but certainly did not take into account the “mileage jumps”.

   Norman Oliver of BUFORA noted that the couple did not want any publicity but felt that regression hypnosis might help them recall what happened. However, the couple moved away and left no forwarding address.  I suspected, and still do, that the couple just wanted to take it no further; it had been traumatic and that was it, all over with.  The parents of Miss J must surely have known where their daughter went but if percipients say “no” and go to the extent of moving away the investigator has no other option than to accept that decision. At the time Norman Oliver had hoped that the couple might get in touch at some later date; they have not.

   

   If BUFORA and particularly FSR were frustrating at times I found Contact (UK) could be equally aggravating despite it having a great data research officer in the form of J. Bernard Delair, whose work on the annual UFO Registers leaves today’s ufologists severely lacking. When I read of the Bicester case I was fairly new to the whole CE3K/AE work and this sounded like one to get my teeth into.

   On the evening of the 9th October, 1974, two 13 year old boys entered the station office of the Ministry of Defence Police at the Central Ordnance Depot, Bicester, Oxfordshire.  Both were described as appearing to be in a state of fright.  It seems that a “thing”, resembling a large, hunched man, had followed them along the Ploughly Road from the village of Ambrosden towards Lower Arncott; a distance of a quarter mile (0.8 km).

   This “thing” was accompanied by a light in the sky; neither the object nor the entity made any noise.  The boys were so shocked that they had to be treated by the MoD police officers; a dog and handler were sent to check around but saw nothing. A doctor later diagnosed one of the boys as suffering from severe shock.

   According to Contact (UK) there “seems to be far more to this case” and though they had contact details they carried out no thorough investigation and despite by association with Lord Clancarty - 8th Lord Clancarty, Brinsley le Poer Trench founded the organisation in 1967- that was it; I could not get access to the information to carry out an investigation.

   Both boys would now be in their 50’s so there is hope that it might be possible to trace them and find out what happened.

   I need to point out that these cases are just a few of those lost to research over the years and while the ‘psychic’ photographs of Stella Lansing received many pages of coverage in FSR and while its editors railed against science and the establishment for ignoring the phenomenon it was doing like-wise with fake science, pontification and, in a few cases, publishing fake reports such as the Braemar landing and entity case.  It allowed and encouraged armchair investigation and ignored cases that should have been the subject to so much more intense investigation.

   Maybe we can correct some of these failings with cold case investigations. I hope so.

AUGUST 1955, CAZERES, HAUTE-GARONNE, FRANCE -Another investigation too late?

ROGER GAYRAL, a ufologist with the group OVNI-Toulouse, indicates that in August 1955, Mr and Mrs Dejan were 60 years old and lived in a one-floor farm in the district "Gironne", at 1 km approximately on the edge of a path coming from the DC 10. On the other side of this way, there was a meadow in slope and a little downwards, some trees at the edge of the Ayguecau brook which runs out towards the Garonne located at approximately 2 kilometers in the east. Roger Gayral notes that in addition to the brook, there are 7 or 8 fountain sources.

At approximately 10 p.m., in a very dark night that month of 1955, Mrs. Dejean went to put the hook at the one of the two windows of the room, when she saw in the meadow, at ten meters of the brook, two objects resembling egg shells with multicolored gleams, of great beauty.

Next to these objects, there were two beings of very small size, 0.90 meters tall, with bald heads.

She called her husband, he stood up and attended the display, but took its rifle to go inform the closest neighbors, Mr and Mrs Araignon.

His dog started to bark and the objects flew away at once quickly, the neighbors saw nothing more than two large reddish "stars" in the sky in the direction of the center of Cazère, i.e. in the south.

On the spot, there were traces, metal drops resembling molten aluminum, forming two circumferences from 2 to 3 meters in diameter approximately, these circles being with 3 meters approximately one from the other. The drops were the size of the nail of the small finger, they were only in the circumferences of these circles, and were lengthened, as if they had fallen from a craft in rotation.

Some short time later, after a rain, the grass grew back everywhere except in these two circles where it remained dry.

Mrs Araignon made this report to Roger Gayral as she was still in the same farm, while Mr Dejean died four years ago and Mrs Dejean had moved.

Mrs Araignon had shown him the exact place of the landing, a place where she had gone in August 1955 at once after the departure of the objects.

Roger Gayral notes that Mrs Araignon, farmer, seemed very balanced, had an excellent memory and was very co-operative.

He also met with Mrs Dejean, now 80 years old, seeming morally down, and she did not remember anything, except the "multicolored garlands", but she stated that in 1970 or 1971 close to Cazères near the railway, in the Pigaine district where she now lived, she saw in full day, a kind of lengthened gray balloon, moving without noise at the height of the rare houses at this place.

The LDLN editor notes that it is regrettable that the information surfaces only 21 years after the occurrence since it might have been possible to analyze the fragments.  

"Enquêtes à Cazères", article by Roger Gayral, in the ufology magazine Lumières Dans la Nuit (LDLN), N.158, page 14, October 1976.  

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UFO Landing 1970, THE CHARENTE, FRANCE

There are MANY reports that do not conform to the false Grey standard of ufology. The problem comes with the age of a report.

If someone reports an incident 25-30 years after it was alleged to have taken place we only have their owrd on the matter but if it conforms to Greys reports then some doubt arises.

If the reportee told other members of his/her family and/or kept some kind of written account that can be dated -a diary entry in which ink age can be tested- it helps.

Please note that I have tidied up this statement (from Ufologie http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rep/1970-charente-fr0284.htm) to make it more readable and I apologise for the translation quality.

1970, THE CHARENTE, FRANCE:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

On May 27th, 2007, a gentlemen sent the following story to me by email:

"I was 20 (then), I am 57 (today). My testimony is thus 37 years old and during all these years I was haunted by what I saw that day.

I was heading home at about 1 a.m. (I live in the country in the Charente) there is a field opposite my house and in this field I saw a landed half sphere which could be clearly distinguished in the darkness.

"I did not pay any attention and I park my car a few meters further on. The orange dome is still in the field on the other side of the road. I opened the gate to get to my home and I then closed it behind me.  I was about to cross the yard that separates me from the house (I was in the dark and I found my way by habit) and it was then that i heard footsteps on the gravel in front of me -they (seem to) run away on all sides but I saw nothing. I was very frightened. I rushed into the barn to switch on the outside light .

"In the yard (I saw) nothing but behind the gate I had closed I could distinguish human shapes(of kids) that looked at me. I felt that something was wrong and my fear increased.

"I went to the house to get a rifle and then I went back to the fence then on to the road. The view between myself and the half sphere was clear  and I saw two little beings come toward me. They stopped at approximately three meters from me. They seemed to talk to me but my fear was such that I raised my rifle. They then turned back and went away slowly. 

"I went to wake up my parents but on looking they found nothing. All (entities) had disappeared. The sphere too.

"A brief article in the local newspaper reported a ufo was sighted above Angouleme that night. (The witness believes that) it landed in front of me and that changed my vision of the world"

Witness email, non anonymous, anonymity preserved, to this website (Patrick Gross, Ufologie), on May 27, 2007.

There are problems. The witness assumes that what he saw was the "UFO" sighted over Angouleme -but based on standard reporting that might have been a meteorite or anything else!

No one else witnessed the entities or object. A debunker would simply say "hoax".  However, we are unaware of the psychological state of the witness at the time -was he tired, exhausted or under stress somehow? Almost 50  years after the event, even if spoken to today, make that impossible to know.

The use of a rifle is slightly worrying. That the entities moved away on it being pointed at them could mean that they had encountered weapons in human hands before. Or, if this were an "altered state" event then to his mind the rifle did what it was supposed to -scare off intruders.

The "invisible runners" could indicate an altered state as described by "Ruth Syndrome" (detailed in UFO Contact?). One might wonder why an hemispherical object in the field had not caused alarm rather than not much interest? It is possible that the witness just gave it a casual glance and thought it might be something moved into the field by someone since aliens did not appear to be something he was thinking about. OR it might be the point at which he began to enter an altered state -a waking dream, which are quite vivid and very real to those experiencing them.

But if this was all in his head why a UFO and aliens -today you might expect it as the subject is everywhere from Japan to China to India and so on via the internet, TV and so on. 1970 was not a huge year for press coverage of UFOs -the witness mentions a brief news item AFTER his sighting.

No wish for publicity.  A joke? We just cannot tell which is why we really need to investigate -as thoroughly as we can- any and all reports that we find. 

We have probably already lost so much information.

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The Hickson and Parker case

I was asked again about the Hickson and Parker case. I dealt with it at length in UFO Contact?  It seems the new book -which I have not read- has gotten a few people stirred up.

It is a case I believe is genuine.  But that is based on the information and NO ONE, other than the two men, know/knew the truth.

I feel credibility is lost when Budd Hopkins enters the scene and does a quick meet-greet-and let's do a regression session before leaving. At that point it turns into a Hopkins abduction scenario. I cannot say I believe what I am reading about the 'memory uncovered'.

As I pointed out in my book, Hickson, Parker -like Mona Stafford and others- seem to have undergone a form of post traumatic stress.

Do not criticise these people until you have read the facts.

The Yeovil Alien

This story appeared on a good few online 'news' web sites and, as is my rule, whatever I thought about it personally it needed to be looked into. I never dismiss a report until I have the facts.  

Here is what the newspapers wrote:

The Sun

SPACE COWBOY Alien sighting reported in Yeovil as man claims he saw sinister seven-foot creature wearing cowboy hat at bus stop

By CARL STROUD

22 Dec 2016, 11:41Updated: 22 Dec 2016, 12:49

Alleged encounter leaves motorist so spooked he has not been able to sleep since

A SINISTER seven-foot alien wearing a cowboy hat has been spotted at a bus stop in Yeovil.

The alleged extra-terrestrial was black, had no face, spikes down its side and “silky” hair.

 Panicked driver sent sketch of extra-terrestrial to local paper after witnessing it at bus stop

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Panicked driver sent sketch of extra-terrestrial to local paper after witnessing it at bus stop Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

The spooked driver who claims to have witnessed it outside Yeovil College in Somerset says the encounter has left him so terrified he hasn’t been able to sleep since.

He said: "I was driving up the road as I normally do and I saw this dark looking figure by Yeovil College. It looked quite tall and had this big Stetson hat.

"I slowed down to have a closer look and thought it's not a man, it was about 7ft tall.

"It had this long thin tube coming from the top of it and spikes coming out of the side. The middle bit of it was like moleskin and hairy.

"The thing wasn't moving at all and was in this box that had sparks coming out of it. It was like something out of science fiction."

The man, who does not want to be named, drew a sketch of the creature, which he claims he saw on the afternoon of December 15, in the hope someone will tell him what it is.

In the drawing he notes that the beast, which was black in colour, wore a "weird" coat and had "silky hair".

The image also shows a long, rectangular body and a thin tube coming out of the hat, which looks like some kind of flute or long pipe.

The alien doesn't appear to have a face.

The man sent his drawing to his local paper and added that he wishes he had never stumbled upon it.

He added: "I just keep thinking I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's just mad.

"I'm struggling to sleep because of it and have been looking online seeing what it could be but am at a loss."

                                  -fin-

Then there was the Mail's account which was the same. In fact, every story on this I have seen is identical. And that suggests it was all copy and paste from a release sent in.

The Mail
By ANTHONY JOSEPH FOR MAILONLINE 

PUBLISHED: 13:28, 22 December 2016 | UPDATED: 16:08, 22 December 2016

Terrified motorist convinced he saw a 7ft alien wearing a cowboy hat at a bus stop has sketched an image of the sinister creature to show the world
He claims to have seen the sinister-looking figure outside Yeovil College 
It unnerved him so much he hasn't slept since and had to sketch an image 
In his sketch, the alien doesn't appear to have a face but was wearing a hat

A motorist says he was left terrified after spotting what he is convinced was a 7ft silky-haired alien, wearing a cowboy hat, waiting for a bus.


The driver said the sinister-looking figure, standing outside Yeovil College in Somerset, unnerved him so much he hasn't slept since and had to sketch an image to show the world.

The 'alien' had no face and a long thin tube coming from the top of it.

The creature-spotter, who has asked not to be named, said it was standing outside the college at a bus stop as he drove past.

He said: 'I was driving up the road as I normally do and I saw this dark looking figure by Yeovil College. It looked quite tall and had this big Stetson hat.

'I slowed down to have a closer look and thought it's not a man, it was about 7ft tall.

'It had this long thin tube coming from the top of it and spikes coming out of the side. The middle bit of it was like moleskin and hairy.

'The thing wasn't moving at all and was in this box that had sparks coming out of it. It was like something out of science fiction.'

The man drew an annotated picture of the alien, which he claims he saw on the afternoon of December 15, in the hope someone will tell him what it is.

In the drawing he notes that the beast, which was black in colour, wore a 'weird' coat and had 'silky hair'.

The image also shows a long, rectangular body and a thin tube coming out of the hat, which looks like some kind of flute or long pipe.

The alien doesn't appear to have a face.

The man sent his drawing to his local paper and added that he wishes he had never stumbled upon it.

He said: 'I just keep thinking I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's just mad.

'I'm struggling to sleep because of it and have been looking online seeing what it could be but am at a loss.' 
                                         -fin-

No one appears to have tried talking directly with the witness. You might think local journalists would jump on this "silly story" to sensationalise it but no.

So, I put out an appeal (and, yes, I was called an "alien hunter"!) because if this witness was so stunned and wanted to know what he had seen he would see the appeal and get in touch, right?

No. I tried everything but no one else appears to have reported this strange site. It was rather suspicious that this happened next to a college.  In fact, based on the description it seems that the alien looked more constructed...if anything was actually seen.

In my opinion, and I am open to being convinced otherwise, this was a college hoax. Allegedly one unnamed person saw this and that was it -the sources could not even tell me the original story source but, as with Cannock Chase, I knew that journalists were/are not shy to carry out a little hoaxing (oddly one journalist named was not at that paper and had no contact details online (!).

Unless there are other witnesses coming forward this has to be classed as a hoax.

The Appeals Still Open -any info welcome

Appeals made to newspapers that received no responses (rather like the Buckfastleigh appeal!)

Oxfordshire 1974

I am hoping that one of your readers may be able to help me get information on an uninvestigated UFO report from 1974. If one of the witnesses involved, who would now be in their 50's, or even one of the MoD Policemen who were one duty reads this I hope they might consider -in confidence- coming forward with their side of the account:

I am an author but also researcher and I have no interest in embarrassing or publicly naming witnesses.  My main aim is to determine exactly what happened that evening and that is all.

On the evening of the 9^th October, 1974, two 13 year old boys entered the station office of the Ministry of Defence Police at the Central Ordnance Depot, Bicester, Oxfordshire.  Both were described as appearing to be in a state of fright.  It seems that a “thing”, resembling a large, hunched man, had followed them along the Ploughly Road from the village of Ambrosden towards Lower Arncott; a distance of a quarter mile (0.8 km).

   This “thing” was accompanied by a light in the sky; neither the object nor the entity made any noise.  The boys were so shocked that they had to be treated by the MoD police officers; a dog and handler were sent to check around but saw nothing. A doctor later diagnosed one of the boys as suffering from severe shock.

Bardney  1976

  I am hoping that one of your readers may have been or know someone who was a witness to some UFO sightings in Woodall Spa and Bardney back in the summer of 1976.  I believe that one or more of those involved moved to your area at some point. One wrote to a UFO investigator at the time:

'On Sunday afternoon boys are allowed to go to Bardney. In the summer term, 1976, about mid-June, we saw a "stick man" jolting along. It was black with a round head, not making any noise. It was about 15O yards away from us, and it was quite hard to see’.

  At the time the sightings were all dismissed simply because the witnesses were youngsters.  No attempt was made to look for any other reports in the areas and that was it.
   I would like to hear from any of the boys -especially regarding the Bardney sighting- in strict confidence. I am a researcher and my interest is in finding out what actually happened and to hope that one or more witnesses will come forward so that the record can be corrected and their accounts included in records.

Nottinghamshire 1979

On the 23rd September, 1979,  six or seven primary school children went for an early evening walk in Wollaton Park in Nottingham, when they were approached by what they described as "gnomes in small cars” .  This has become known as "The Woollaton Park Gnomes case".

At the time the children spoke to their headmaster who recorded what they claimed happened.  Those children would now be adults in their late 40's.  There was never any thorough investigation since "They are just kids" was the standard response but I would be very interested in hearing from any of those involved in confidence.  I am an author and researcher but my prime interest is really in getting to the facts and what happened.

Was it just a game the kids thought up or are they still willing to state that this really happened? As I said, all in complete confidence as I can imagine they might feel a little embarrassed (either way) but I would be very interested in actually hearing from one of those there at the time rather than read the constant inaccurate rehashing on web sites.

And, of course, Buckfastleigh

On the 3^rd October, 1978, three teenagers left a youth club in Buckfastleigh, Devon. The trio were given pseudonyms at the time of Shirley, Mark and Paul.

Investigation procedures at the time as well as protocol on dealing with witnesses were not what they are today. 

We know that the trio observed a number of unidentified objects in the sky above the village and some unidentified figures on three occasions.  We might normally be cautious but a retired gentleman named Harry observed the objects himself after the nervous trio knocked on his door –his cats also behaved oddly.

The teens were traumatised and the girl identified as Shirley was said to have been most affected.

1978 seems a very long time ago now but I am trying to locate the teens and gather as much information about observations that evening as I can.  If they read this, or any family members do, then please get in touch. I cannot over-emphasise that I deal with witnesses in the strictest confidence and have done so for over 40 years.  My interest is purely for research and so I hope that the trio will consider getting in touch with me.

I can be contacted via email at aopbureau@yahoo.co.uk or blackto@hotmail.com or via Face Book Messenger –Anomalous Observational Phenomena page.

If anyone out there reads this and THEY were one of the witnesses PLEASE get in touch.  If anyone knows the witnesses please pass this along.  We have lost so much real data that these reports deserve to be looked into.